J2ME, Java for Mobile Devices

By Javier Gonzalez

J2ME, Java for Mobile Devices

(2007) Does your cel phone have, on the application section, a Java logo? If so, your cel phone is able to execute programs developed in Java. If not, it is a fact that your next phone will have the ability to execute Java programs. Two billions of persons in the world have access to a cel phone, thus SUN has generated a strong strategy in order to include Java on these devices. This tutorial is about how to program these mobile devices using Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME). We will start with a brief description of how to program GUIs and simple applications, and we will end the tutorial in a fun way giving you the basic to program a video game.

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